Systematic study of quantum groups from the viewpoint of operator algebras

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Yamanouchi has made an intensive study of actions of locally compact quantum groups on von Neumann algebras. He introduced a notion of a Galois group for such an action. He has succeeded in topologically identifying the Galois group of an intergrable, minimal action of a general locally compact quantum group as the intrinsic group of the dual quantum group.Kishimoto has made a very unique research on automorphisms or one-parameter automorphism groups on nontype I separable C^*-algebras. He showed that, for any irreducible representation of such a C^*-algebra without nonzero intersection with compact operators, there exists an approximately inner one-parameter automorphism group so that the representation is covariant with respect to this one-parameter automorphism group.Arai has made a progress in his research in mathematical physics. He considered a model of quantum particles coupled to a massless quantum scalar field, and showed that the model has a ground state for all values of the coupling constant.Ueda has made an anlysis on amalgamated free products of von Neumann algebras over Cartan subalgebras. By utilizing an irreducible inclusion of type III factors coming from his free-product type action of the quantum SU_q(2), he has been ble to solve the long-standing problem that the free group factor of Radulescu possesses irreducible subfactors of arbitrary index greater than 4.